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Fast Forward Dad Gets Kidney Transplant From Daughter Who Died In Horseback Accident
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man received a kidney transplant from his daughter who died in an accident while vacationing abroad. Moshe Shimnoni, 66, came out of surgery on Tuesday for the kidney transplant as his daughter, Orit Gur, 44, was being buried in Israel, the Israeli Hebrew-language daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot reported Wednesday. Gur,…
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Fast Forward Israel Won’t Negotiate With Hamas-Backed Palestinian Government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Tuesday it would not hold peace negotiations with a Palestinian government dependent on the Islamist Hamas group, responding to a new reconciliation agreement between the two main Palestinian factions. Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction sealed a deal last week in which Hamas agreed to cede…
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Fast Forward Israel Sets Preconditions For Talks With Palestinian Unity Government
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government said it will not conduct diplomatic negotiations with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas unless it meets several conditions, including a halt to the group’s terrorist activities. The conditions, which were announced Tuesday following a meeting of the Security Cabinet, include recognition of Israel and a halt to…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans Bill That Would Shut Down Critical NGOs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A new bill being prepared would allow the Israeli government to close left-wing NGOS that are critical of the Israeli military or call for boycotts of Israel. The bill Is being prepared by Israel’s Tourism Minister Yariv Levin at the behest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Channel 2 reported. Levin reportedly…
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Community Want ‘Official Israel’ To Respect You, Diaspora Jews? Here’s How To Make It Happen.
Israel boasts that it is the Jewish homeland. A home for all Jews. It declares solidarity and inclusion that in reality it fails to deliver. A perfect example of this gap was demonstrated in the Cabinet meeting on June 25, 2017. The topic of the meeting was Israel-Diaspora relations, and Natan Sharansky, chairman of the…
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Fast Forward Ben Kingsley Playing Adolf Eichmann In Movie About Israeli Capture Operation
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — British actor Ben Kingsley is in Buenos Aires filming a Hollywood movie about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents. Filming of “Operation Finale” will last one more month in the greater Buenos Aires area in which Eichmann lived as Ricardo Klement until a Mossad unit…
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Fast Forward Israel Scraps Plan For Database Of American Jewish Students
The Israeli government has suspended a plan to create a database of the names of all Jewish college students in the U.S., Haaretz reported. The plan was scuttled after Haaretz released an article detailing the controversial initiative. The company that was supposed to run the initiative, Mosaic United, is run by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora…
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Fast Forward Ancient Roman Theater Uncovered At Western Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An ancient Roman theater and eight stone courses, or layers of cut stone, were uncovered in excavations in the Western Wall Tunnels in Jerusalem. The preserved archeological discoveries were unveiled to the media on Monday by the Israel Antiquities Authority, following work to remove an 8-meter layer of earth under Wilson’s Arch, the…
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